> On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:07 PM, John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:47 PM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> > wrote: > >> I’m sure you can reflash LSI card to make it SATA or SAS HBA, or MegaRAD >> hardware RAID adapter. Is far as I recollect it is the same electronics >> board. I reflashed a couple of HBAs to make them MegaRAID boards. >> > > you can reflash SOME megaraid cards to put them in IT 'hba' mode, but not > others. > > >> >> One thing though bothers me about LSI, now after last it was bought by >> Intel its future faith worries me. Intel pushed 3ware which it acquired in >> the same package with LSI already into oblivion… >> > > Its Avago, formerly Aligent, and before that HP, which bought LSI, 3Ware, > and then Broadcom, and renamed itself Broadcom. > I am apparently wrong, at least about LSI, it still belongs to broadcom, thanks! Long before broadcom acquired LSI and 3ware, I was awfully displeased by their WiFi chip: infamous BCM43xx. It is 32 bit chip sitting on 64 bit bus. No [sane] open source programmer will be happy to write driver for that. For ages we were using ndis wrapper…. As much as I disliked broadcom for their wireless chipset, I loved them for their ethernet one. And I recollect this was long ago before acquisition by broadcom of LSI and 3ware. Or am I wrong? Valeri > > -- > -john r pierce > recycling used bits in santa cruz > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos